"What's Wei Bao? It is too unbelievable to dare to form a gang and form a faction to be the enemy of the nine thousand years old. ”

"Didn't he just climb the big tree of the British Mansion, and now he doesn't take the nine thousand years old in his eyes?"

"I've long seen that Wei Bao is not pleasing to the eye, a person from Liaoxi Township, a whole sycophant, in addition to speculating and monopolizing, what else will he do?"

"Nine thousand years old did the right thing, exposing Wei Bao in front of His Majesty at this time is much easier to deal with than when this guy is raised stronger after a while."

Everyone gossiped and attacked Wei Bao together.

Wei Zhongxian saw it in his eyes, and his mood was a little more relaxed.

No matter how capable Wei Bao is, he is not his cronies.

And no matter how wasteful these guys are, they all rely on their cronies, and they can't live without themselves.

Therefore, whether you can do it or not is secondary, and the key is to have the same mind.

"It's not as serious as you think, and Wei Bao didn't oppose our family, it's our family who doesn't worry about him. And our family didn't say anything to death in front of His Majesty! Wei Zhongxian said.

After listening to the words of the nine thousand years old, everyone calmed down a little.

"Uncle, now that you have torn your face, there is no room for manoeuvre, right? With Wei Bao's current power, he is deeply appreciated by His Majesty, and the British government is a backer, since he has torn his face, he can only be killed to prevent future troubles. Wei Liangqing said.

When everyone heard this, they echoed it.

"Say something useful, without substantial evidence, who can take Wei Bao what? Wei Bao has just recently been made a marquis, and he was killed so quickly, will His Majesty be willing? And what will the ministers and the people say? Is it Your Majesty who has no beads, or do I have eyes without beads? Will Wei Bao's soldiers and horses and Zhang Weixian's soldiers and horses be willing? How many men do we have? When something happens, who can resist the army? Wei Zhongxian continued to ask in his soul.

Let everyone calm down again.

In the past, Wei Zhongxian had a good relationship with Wei Bao, and Wei Bao was very good at being a person, and there was no one present who had not received Wei Bao's benefits.

Therefore, none of the people present really imagined that one day they would fall out with Wei Bao.

"The key is that Wei Bao can make money." Wei Zhongxian frowned, "Otherwise, our family wouldn't do this today, do any of you have Wei Bao's ability to make silver?" If Wei Bao's proposal is replaced by you, taking a few treaty ports, and collecting the Daming Sailors, who can guarantee that eight million taels or nine million taels of silver will be raised for the imperial court immediately? ”

Then the people did not dare to say anything.

Eight million taels, nine million taels of silver?

It's scary to listen to.

The new military expenditure of the Apocalypse Dynasty - Liao Salary, of course, has a part that relies on commercial taxes, but it has little to do with the Eunuch Party, but has more to do with the Donglin Party.

Tian Fu plus levy is the common view of the officials who dealt with practice in the imperial court.

It can even be said that the wealth collected by Duke Wei has nothing to do with the Liaodong front, it is used to repair the three major halls, or to fill his own pockets, and it goes into Wei Zhongxian's personal pocket, and the amount of this money is not large, together, it is not as much silver as Wei Bao gave Wei Zhongxian in a few months.

From this point of view, Gonggong Wei, as the actual ruler of the Ming court, may not be very good.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the primary reason for the increase was to cope with the military expenditure of the Liaodong War, referred to as "Liaojiao".

The war in Liaodong was related to the life and death of the Ming Dynasty, and the preparation of the Liao salary was the primary policy during the Apocalypse.

The changes in the Liaoyuan policy when Donglin and the Eunuch Party gained power before and after the Apocalypse Dynasty are very illustrative.

Even if Wei Zhongxian has the power in his hands, he can't get silver, or in other words, no one under Wei Zhongxian has the ability to make silver like Wei Bao.

Making money is not only ruthless and spicy, but also has to have brains.

Otherwise, there are a lot of ruthless people under Wei Zhongxian.

In order to manage the salary, Wanli 48 years began to set up a "new warehouse" in Taicang to collect and store the salary collected from various channels, specifically to supply the "anti-gold" front, and set up a new salary department of the household department for special management.

In addition to the military salary of the original Liaodong Town, there are also several major items in the Liaodong Town, such as Tian Fu Jiapai, miscellaneous, salt class, and banknote customs.

These items were levied during the Apocalypse.

In the 45th year of Wanli, in 1617, Ding Si Jingcha, the three parties broke Donglin; Guangzong in January the world, used some Donglin figures, and Donglin used the palace transfer case to regain its strength.

In the early years of the Apocalypse, Donglin gained power, and at the beginning of the third year of the Apocalypse, Donglin defeated the three parties, and the "party power" reached its peak.

After that, eunuchs began to form. Yang Lian impeached Wei Zhongxian and Wan Liao was killed with a rod, and these things were in June of the 4th year of the Apocalypse.

Ye Xianggao Zhishi in July, and Gu Bingqian was promoted to first assistant in November of that year.

In the following year, Wang Shaohui and Zhou Yingqiu took office successively, and the eunuch party controlled the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The eunuch party controlled the household department after Guo Yunhou became the secretary of the household department in the fifth year of the Apocalypse.

It can be roughly said that the early politics of the Apocalypse were carried out under the leadership of Donglin and pro-Donglin people, and the summer and autumn of the third year of the Apocalypse was the beginning of the reversal of the situation of the eunuch party.

In the 46th year of Wanli, in September 1618, Li Ruhua, the head of the household department, was the minister of the neutral faction, and proposed that in addition to Guizhou, the whole country should levy 0.0035 taels of silver per mu of private land, that is, three centimeters and five millimeters.

At that time, it was said that it was a temporary measure for only one year.

In December of the following year, Xiong Tingbi was slightly passed in Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi should be regarded as the Qichu Zhejiang Party, but in fact, it should be regarded as half of the Eunuch Party.

Xiong Tingbi inspected the military affairs of Liaodong, and at the suggestion of Yao Zongwen and other people from the Qichu and Zhejiang parties, he added 0.0035 taels.

In March of Wanli 48, at the suggestion of the household department and other yamen, 0.002 taels were levied, which were initially managed by the military and engineering departments.

In the 2nd year of the Apocalypse, it was assigned to the household department.

That is to say, from the 48th year of Wanli, the total amount of Liaoyu Zhongtian Fu was 0.009 taels per mu, commonly known as "nine cents of silver".

The national total is 5.2 million taels.

During the Apocalypse, Tian Fu did not increase the distribution, and in the 2nd year of the Apocalypse, he exempted the 430,000 taels of Liao salary from Beizhili.

At the same time, about 100,000 taels of Liaoyu were exempted from the three prefectures of Deng, Lai, and Qingdao in Shandong, which were shipping bases.

Wei Zhongxian is a native of Suning, Beizhili, and the backbone of the eunuch party, Cui Chengxiu, Wei Guangwei, Feng Quan and others are also from Beizhili, which is the eunuch party to give tax exemption to his hometown.

However, at this time, there was no political group of eunuchs at all, and Wei Gonggong did not have so much influence.

The reason why Zhuang Tian, who was a relative of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was mostly in Beizhili.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, 30% of next year's additional distribution has been pre-levied, and then in addition to collecting 70% of this year, 30% of the next year's will be pre-levied.

This is equivalent to the imperial court temporarily collecting more than 1 million taels.

In addition, since the 3rd year of the Apocalypse, the Liao salary levy in the four provinces of Chu, Gui, Shu and Yunnan has been reused to suppress the rebellion of Lu'an.

In this way, the income of the Tian Fu plus distribution in the special fund for Liao Salary was reduced by 820,000 taels.

The amount in the third year of the Apocalypse is 3.48 million taels.

Until the third year of Chongzhen, in order to cope with the new situation of increasing troops after the change of his own country, the Ming court increased the number of 0.003 taels per mu under the suggestion of Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the household department.

Miscellaneous The so-called miscellaneous is the general name of a variety of titles to increase income proposed by Wang Yingjiao, the head of the household department in the first year of the Apocalypse, and the minister of the Donglin Party.

Wang Yingjiao said in the recital that the annual increase in income could reach 2.96 million taels.

It was implemented that year, but the specific quota of each province was not specified, and a total of 1.16 million taels were levied.

Apocalypse received only 650,000 taels in 2 years.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, the specific share of each province was stipulated, of which the miscellaneous income of the four provinces of Chu, Gui, Shu, and Yunnan was also suppressed and used for the rebellion of Lu'an, and the other provinces had a total quota of 1.81 million taels.

According to the share of the 3-year Apocalypse, the miscellaneous items included in the miscellaneous items, such as: the "sub-grain" income of the Weisuo Tuntian, which had not participated in the Liaotian Fu and Dispatch before, is now receiving an additional 230,000 taels. Preferential exemption of grain: Ming Dynasty officials, people with scientific names, Confucian scholars who served the government, officials and others enjoyed the privilege of exempting themselves from errand service and reducing different amounts of land taxes, and now in addition to Xiucai, they will be charged as appropriate, a total of 444,000 taels.

This is clearly what is called "taxing the gentry". In fact, the above two items will continue to increase the income from the field endowment.

Pingliangcang Grain: Pingliangcang is a reserve warehouse of local states and counties, which usually stores a certain amount of grain and silver every year, and is used for relief in times of famine. Half of the income is now handed over to the central government. A total of 146,000 taels.

Deduction of work and food: At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the manpower required by the local government was forcibly transferred from the private sector in the form of "service", and later the compulsory was gradually abolished, and the local government increased the salary, that is, "labor and food silver", and hired from the private sector. A part of the "food and industry silver" was handed over to the central government. A total of 679,000 taels.

Mafu Waiting: It is a part of the salary expenses of grooms and others who serve the magistrates to the central government. Nearly 100,000 taels.

Governors and governors pay salaries and patrol according to public expenses: The governors and governors of the provinces go to the local government as central officials to run errands, and there is no direct local financial revenue to support, and the local government has to allocate office funds according to the rules, and the governor has the right to fine the case, which can also be used as funds.

A part of these funds is now handed over to the central government, totaling 198,000 taels.

These four points are the central government's competition for revenue from local finances.

Real estate tax deed: real estate transaction tax, tax rate of 2%, levied nearly 290,000 taels.

Pawn shop discretion: The pawn shops in each province are divided into 5 classes according to their assets, and the annual tax ranges from 10 to 50 taels, with a levy of 195,000 taels.

These two items are taxes levied on the two major profiteering industries of finance and real estate, and they do not affect the "industry".

The public was allowed to donate 130 taels of silver to buy the identity of the student, but there was no fixed amount.

The student can not pay the silver, which is actually selling a tax-free privilege. The prescribed tax amount is very detailed, but the local financial capacity is limited, and it can only pay more than 600,000 taels a year.

In the second year of Chongzhen, the household department began to make a budget and re-set the miscellaneous items to 970,000 taels, which was obviously a helpless move in the face of reality.

This budget subtracted the "superintendent's military salary and patrol public expenses" that could not be levied before, but Chongzhen's four-year budget reappeared in this item, and began to levy more than 40 taels of "preferential exemption for students", starting with the students who were still exempted from military service before.

The additional levy of the salt class was proposed by Yang Sichang, the official in charge of the Liao salary in the household department in the first year of the Apocalypse.

At that time, the Ming court issued the "Outline Law", stipulating that a group of fixed merchants would subscribe to salt quotations every year.

Originally, the merchants had to pay the "surplus salt silver" when they subscribed to the salt introduction, but in fact, the government lost some control of the stove households and the salt fields, and instead passed the money on to the merchants.

In the 3rd year of the Apocalypse, there are 320,000 taels of "salt and silver" in the salary data, which is the number set in the first year of the Apocalypse.

In May of the 4th year of the Apocalypse, 547,000 taels of salt were levied, but the duration of this levy is unknown, and the later narrators of the Liao Levy did not mention this levy, which was under other names, such as the construction of the three major halls and the repair of the emperor's mausoleum.

Since then, there have been some successive levies, the actual amount of which is unknown.

In the third year of Chongzhen, the previous salt tax was included in Liaoyu, and the amount was increased to 940,000 taels.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a banknote customs in the waterway transportation distribution center, and passing ships were taxed according to the amount of cargo.

Some banknotes also collect the "commercial tax" levied on the goods of merchants at the same time.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, 65,000 taels were added on the basis of the original amount of 345,000 taels, and in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, 2 banknotes were added, and 135,000 taels were levied.

This is the only increase in taxes in the last three years of the Apocalypse Dynasty.

Wei Zhongxian's collection of industrial and commercial taxes, except for the 135,000 taels, is really nowhere to be found.

Wei Zhongxian instructed people to falsely accuse Hui merchants of confiscating their family property for "sitting on stolen goods", but unfortunately it was for the purpose of repairing the three major halls, which was originally another unnecessary expense.

In about 2 years of Chongzhen, another 50,000 taels were added.

Chongzhen increased the total amount to 336,000 taels in 3 years.

In the following 13 years, an additional 200,000 taels were levied.

On the whole, the Tianfu levy was a policy set in the last years of the Wanli Dynasty, and it was not Donglin who was in power at that time.

Miscellaneous, salt classes, and tariffs were all set by Donglin in the early years of the Apocalypse Dynasty, of course, not all the incumbent officials were Donglin, which can be regarded as set during the Donglin Party.

As for the Chongzhen period, miscellaneous housing transaction taxes, pawnshop patriotic donations, salt taxes, customs duties, etc. not only continued to be collected, but also increased.

On the contrary, in the three years after the apocalypse, except for a temporary increase in land endowment and an increase in tariffs, it seems that no taxes have been raised.

Wei Zhongxian has increased his salt income in recent years, and salt is a monopoly product, which will only be passed on to the people, promote private salt, mint inferior copper coins for profit, and make false accusations of stolen goods.

The collection of treasury silver in various places, miscellaneous items is to pinch the neck of the local government, and this is to directly dig out the local government's family funds, all under the banner of "helping the great work", just to build the three major halls for the emperor.

This temple was completed in two and a half years, which is not unpleasant, consuming 5.95 million taels of silver, and the total expenditure of Liao salary for nearly a year.

The cadres of the eunuch party, Cui Chengxiu and Sun Jie, did the work of "inspector work" in the last years of the Apocalypse.

Wei Gonggong also had a trick of "donation", at the beginning he called on the royal palaces to donate, which was not enough, after all, he had a fixed income, and later assigned the task to the incumbent officials, so he made many "private factions".

Originally, it was not possible for officials to raise taxes in the jurisdiction without authorization, but now with this reputation, at least they can prevaricate within the imperial court.

Therefore, although Wei Zhongxian has thought of many ways to make money, he really can't make money, and it takes people with strong ability to implement it.

Wei Zhongxian's own ability is very ordinary, and he is only powerful in interpersonal relationships, and it is not good to do specific things.

And Wei Zhongxian did not have a person like Wei Bao under his hands.

Wei Zhongxian immediately saw the crux of the problem.

"Early tomorrow morning, it is estimated that Your Majesty will have to summon the ministers to the platform to discuss matters, and by tomorrow morning, everything will be decided, if Your Majesty agrees to Wei Bao's advice, we will be very passive in the future, and Wei Bao is likely to replace our family." Wei Zhongxian sighed.

Wei Zhongxian is really not optimistic that he can win against Wei Bao, and he is even more afraid that the British public Zhang Weixian will play a role in it.

Wei Zhongxian's discussion was very intense and lively, and Wei Bao's mansion was also a bit lively.

Because when Wei Bao had not yet left the palace, the ministers of the Donglin Party already knew the news.

One by one, they blocked the door of the Wei Mansion as if they had taken stimulants, waiting to see Lord Wei.

Since the departure of several Donglin Party cabinet veterans, the eunuch party is dictatorial, and Wei Zhongxian covers the sky with one hand, and the Donglin Party has been very weak.

Now that everyone heard that Lord Wei and Wei Zhongxian were working against each other, they all felt like they had seen the dawn, and they felt that the opportunity had come.

If there is Lord Wei as the banner, the banner of the Donglin Party will be re-erected, and it will once again have the ability to compete with the Eunuch Party.

Among them, there are many powerful ministers, and Cabinet Minister Ding Shaoshi is one of them.

After Ding Shaoshi left the palace today, the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and he felt that the opportunity had come.

He was talking to Wei Bao today, and he was already standing in the same trench as Wei Bao.

Ding Shaoshi knew that his fame and ability were not enough, and he was not even as good as Wei Bao, who was only fifteen years old and was about to turn sixteen.

Although Wei Bao has only been in the office for less than a year, Wei Bao has done everything very beautifully, and a Beijing investigation plan and a text inventory plan, both of which have had a huge impact on the officialdom.

Now among the Beijing officials, not to mention much, at least thirty percent of them are in the hands of Wei Bao.

Therefore, when Wei Bao is pulled, Wei Bao is definitely capable of leading the Donglin Party.